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- Title
The neural network involved in a bimanual tactile–tactile matching discrimination task: a functional imaging study at 3 T.
- Authors
Habas, Christophe; Cabanis, Emmanuel
- Abstract
The cerebral and cerebellar network involved in a bimanual object recognition was studied in blood oxygenation dependent level functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Nine healthy right-handed volunteers were scanned (1) while performing bilateral finger movements (nondiscrimination motor task), and (2) while performing a bimanual tactile–tactile matching discrimination task using small chess pieces (tactile discrimination task). Extensive activations were specifically observed in the parietal (SII, superior lateral lobule), insular, prefrontal, cingulate and neocerebellar cortices (HVIII), with a left predominance in motor areas, during the tactile discrimination task in contrast to the findings during the nondiscrimination motor task. Bimanual tactile–tactile matching discrimination recruits multiple sensorimotor and associative cerebral and neocerebellar networks (including the cerebellar second homunculus, HVIII), comparable to the neural circuits involved in unimanual tactile object recognition.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC resonance imaging; NONDISCRIMINATION tests (Retirement plans); BIOLOGICAL neural networks; CEREBRAL cortex; CEREBELLUM; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology)
- Publication
Neuroradiology, 2007, Vol 49, Issue 8, p681
- ISSN
0028-3940
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00234-007-0239-8